A
Ira Aldridge
Terry Alexander
Mary Alice
B
Pearl Bailey
Amiri Baraka (LeRoi Jones)
James Baldwin
Harry Belafonte
Trazana Beverly
Jocelyn Bioh
Eubie Blake
Alex Bradford
Dee Dee Bridgewater
Anne Brown
William Alexander Brown
William Wells Brown
Ed Bullins
Anita Bush
C
Adolph Caeser
Vinnette Carroll
Alice Childress
Hope Clarke
Bob Cole
Will Marion Cook
Countee Cullen
D
Dorothy Dandridge
Ossie Davis
Viola Davis
Dora Dean
Ruby Dee
Doris Derby
André De Shields
Loretta Devine
Jackie Sibblies Drury
W.E.B. DuBois
Bill Duke
Paul Laurence Dunbar
Todd Duncan
Katherine Dunham
Charles S. Dutton
G
Charles Gilpin
Charles Gordone
Louis Gossett, Jr.
Micki Grant
David Alan Grier
Angelina Weld Grimke
H
Lorraine Hansberry
Richard B. Harrison
Heather Headley
Sherman Hemsley
James Hewlett
Robert Hooks
Anna Hyers
Emma Hyers
Abram Hill
J. Leubrie Hill
Ernest Hogan
Geoffrey Holder
Tommy Hollis
Lena Horne
Langston Hughes
J
Michael R. Jackson
Samuel L. Jackson
Billy Johnson
Charles E. Johnson
J. Rosamond Johnson
James P. Johnson
James Weldon Johnson
James Earl Jones
Matilda Sissieretta Jones
Scott Joplin
Louis Jordan
Woodie King, Jr.
Eartha Kitt
L
La Chanze
Sanaa Lathan
Canada Lee
Rosetta LeNoire
Kenny Leon
Norm Lewis
Cleavon Little
Sam Lucas
Aubrey Lyles
M
Carol Lynn Maillard
Helen Martin
Audra McDonald
Claudia McNeil
Flornoy Miller
Florence Mills
Abbie Mitchell
Melba Moore
Dominique Morisseau
Mantan Moreland
N
Fayard Nicholas
Harold Nicholas
Lynn Nottage
O
Frederick O’Neal
John O’Neal
P
Suzan-Lori Parks
Ron OJ Parson
Clarke Peters
Sidney Poitier
R
Muriel Rahn
Beah Richards
Lloyd Richards
Willis Richardson
Paul Robeson
Bill “Bojangles” Robinson
Alex Rogers
Roxie Roker
Ted Ross
S
Diana Sands
Oz Scott
Ntozake Shange (Paulette Williams)
Jesse A. Shipp
Hilda Simms
Noble Sissle
Charlie Smalls
Anna Deavere Smith
Chuck Smith
Muriel Smith
Nilaja Sun
W
Aida Overton Walker
George Walker
Joseph A. Walker
Douglas Turner Ward
Denzel Washington
Ethel Waters
Cheryl West
Alberta Whitman
Alice Whitman
Essie Whitman
Mabel Whitman
Bert Williams
Lottie Williams
August Wilson
Dooley Wilson
George C. Wolfe
Charlayne Woodard
Richard Wright